SCORING RUBRICS in DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY

CRITERIA 5 4 3 2 1

FOCUS / CONTENT

Effectively and consistently focused on a specific subject; clearly identified subject in-focus; well described and developed subject

Completely focused on a specific subject; clearly identified subject-infocus; clearly developed and fully described subject-in-focus

Somewhat focused on The subject is identified an identified subject; but not focused and described and developed developed. subject-in-focus

The subject-in-focus is not identified and not developed.

STRUCTURE

Vivid, colourful, accurate, concrete, objective, subjective sensory details powerfully describe the subject-in-focus; abundant, specific, clear, unified and coherent supports bring descriptions of thoughts and feelings into life.

Vivid, colorful, concrete, accurate, objective, subjective, sensory details completely described the subject-infocus; adequate specific, clear, unified and coherent supports bring descriptions of thoughts and feelings into life.

Some colorful, objective and subjective sensory details described the subject-infocus; some clear supports bring descriptions of thoughts and feelings into life.

Few objective and subjective sensory details described the subject-in-focus; supports fail to bring descriptions of thoughts and feelings into life.

Objective and subjective sensory details are not used to describe the subject-in-focus.

ORGANIZATION

The description follows a very consistent pattern of organization that is well suited to the topic/ subject-in-focus.

The description follows a consistent pattern of organization that is suited to the topic/ subject-in-focus.

The description follows a consistent pattern of organization with minor inconsistencies.

Parts of the description lack organization.

The description is confusing and hard to follow.

STYLE

Abundant descriptive details, sensory images, figures of speech and very appropriate vantage point are employed by the writer.

Adequate descriptive details, sensory images, figures of speech and appropriate vantage point are employed by the writer.

Some descriptive details, sensory images, figures of speech and vantage point are employed by the writer.

Few descriptive details, sensory images are employed by the writer.

Very few descriptive details, sensory images are employed by the writer.

TONE

Sensory words and imagery create a very clear sense of mood.

Sensory words and imagery create a clear sense of mood.

Sensory words and imagery create a sense of mood.

Sensory words and imagery are used but they fail to convey a sense of mood. There are some errors in grammar, sentence structure and usage .

Sense of mood is not clearly conveyed.

LANGUAGE CONVENTION

There are no errors in grammar, sentence structure and usage .

There are very few , if any, errors in grammar, sentence structure and usage .

There are few errors in grammar, sentence structure and usage .

There are frequent errors in grammar, sentence structure and usage .

MECAHNICS

There is thorough control of spelling, punctuation marks, capitalization, margin and indentation.

There is sufficient control of spelling, punctuation marks, capitalization, margin and indentation.

There are some control of spelling, punctuation marks, capitalization, margin and indentation.

There is little control of spelling, punctuation marks, capitalization, margin and indentation

There is no control of spelling, punctuation marks, capitalization, margin and indentation